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Botany for young people and common schools : how plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany : with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated : illustrated by 500 wood engravings / by Asa Gray, M.D., Fisher Professor of Natural History in Harvard University.
LIBRA - Rare QK47 .G7 1858 Adams copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gray, Asa, 1810-1888, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Botany--Juvenile literature.
- Botany.
- Genre:
- Juvenile works.
- Advertisements.
- Penn Provenance:
- Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)
- Adams, Mark B., (former owner) (autograph, January, 1975) (Adams copy)
- Harshberger, John W. (John William), 1869-1929 (autograph, April 1887) (bookplate) (stamp as Herbarium of J.H.) (Adams copy)
- Physical Description:
- 233 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- How plants grow
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Co., 1858.
- Contents:
- How plants grow, and what their parts or organs are
- How plants are propagated or multiplied in numbers
- Why plants grow; what they are made for and what they do
- How plants are classified, named and studied
- Popular flora
- Notes:
- "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1858, by Ivison and Phinney ..."--verso of title page.
- "This book is intended to teach Young People how to begin to read, with pleasure and advantage, one large and easy chapter in the open Book of Nature; namely, that in which the wisdom and goodness of the Creator are plainly written in the Vegetable Kingdom."--Page 2.
- Includes indexes.
- On spine: How plants grow.
- Pages 104¹-104⁴ inserted between 104-105.
- Publisher's advertisement: [1] page at end.
- Local Notes:
- Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.
- Malgieri Collection copy has large portion of spine wanting.
- Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. Botany for young people and common schools.
- OCLC:
- 2432726
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